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A New Twist on Home Economics (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - Generations of American girls learned how to run a household in high school home economics classes. In the 21st century, girls are learning how to build the house -- and shopping malls, office buildings and virtually every other kind of structure on the American landscape.
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Business (The West Australian)
A single national independent regulator should be set up to oversee not-for-profit organisations, a senate committee has found. The senate economics committee on Thursday tabled a report on the disclosure regimes of charities and not-for-profit organisations.
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Shelby’s INTERIORS by Decorating Den business still going strong after five years (Char-Koosta News)
ARLEE — Business statistics indicate that most new businesses fail within two years. But Velda Shelby’s small business enterprise INTERIORS by Decorating Den proves that adage wrong. Her mobile interior design and decorating business is now in its fifth year of operation.
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Private Businesses Shed 250,000 Jobs in November (Washington Post)
Business conditions weakened across the United States and in almost every industry in recent weeks, according to a Federal Reserve report released today. And a pair of other reports indicated that private employers shed jobs at an accelerating rate and the nation's service sector contracted sharply...
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Anna Fazackerley: It's time to get tough on choosing soft subjects (Independent)
I can hear them now. Parents all over the country are boasting about the A-Levels their clever offspring are studying. "Oh yes, Matthew is working ever so hard," they say merrily. "He's taking law, history and business. I don't know where he inherited his brains from!"
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Meltdown 101: How productive are we as a nation? (AP via Yahoo! News)
If you're employed, you're one of your company's assets. The measure of how well your employer uses you is your productivity — the goods and services you produce for each hour you work.
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Russian state bank asks for $50b handout (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Russian state bank VEB has asked the Government for an additional 950 billion rubles ($53 billion) to shore up its cash reserves, Vedomosti business daily reported.
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It's official: US has been in a recession all year (The Charlotte Observer)
(By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer) It's official. The U.S. economy has been in a recession for the past year. The start of the downturn was announced Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NBER - a private, nonprofit research organization - said its group of academic economists who determine business cycles met and decided that the U.S. recession began last December. By ...
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Housing construction figures plummet (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The number of new homes approved by planning authorities continues to fall.
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Meltdown 101: How productive are we as a nation? (Lexington Herald-Leader)
If you're employed, you're one of your company's assets. The measure of how well your employer uses you is your productivity - the goods and services you produce for each hour you work. The national labor productivity report tracks how well companies are doing, across the economy, at getting more out of their workers. Greatly simplified: If factories have retooled to operate more efficiently, ...
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